CHRISTMAS PROVIDERS - Please help make 2016 a success!Welcome to the Christmas Provider website.
Mission Statement: To assist less-fortunate families with children in the HEB and Birdville School Districts by providing "Christmas" for them using an "adopt-a-family" approach. Our non profit organization consists entirely of volunteers and representatives from area communities, churches, businesses and schools in the HEB and Birdville Independent School Districts.

Our non-profit volunteer driven organization's goal is to provide Christmas for needy school children and their families. We have been in existence since 1984 serving 400 -600 families every Christmas season. This is a unique adopt-a-family Christmas program in that people who choose to help a family (the "Provider") will actually get to meet their adopted family and deliver Christmas themselves!

Our organization works closely with the school counselors of the two partner school districts to ensure that the most needy families are offered help. The school children of these two districts also hold a food drive for our organization so that adoptive families can receive non-perishable canned goods in addition to Christmas gifts.

Volunteers are always needed to adopt the families, answer phone lines from Providers, sort and box donated canned goods, or help load the boxes of the canned goods into Provider vehicles. If you are interested in being a volunteer, please call the Provider line and leave your name and number and a Board Member or other volunteer will get with you.

Read further to find out how you can help.

NOTE: Families interested in being servered by Christmas Providers must have a child enrolled in either the HEB or Birdville School District. Contact your school nurse for more information.

Volunteer to Adopt-A-Family. Call 817-503-0529 To adopt a family for Christmas call the following number anytime beginning Nov.7th,2016 and before December 5th, 2016. The phone lines are answered between 9 am - 2pm or you may leave a message after hours for a volunteer to get back to you the next business day. This phone will be disconnected on December 20th and reinstated prior to the next Christmas Season.

817-503-0529.
To help sort and box nonperishable food items, please call 817/503-0529 or 817/421-0437 beginning November 1st for more information.

EMAIL: Christmasproviders@verizon.net
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$25,000 Goal for Cash DonationsCash donations are used to purchase "gift cards" from local grocery stores. These gift cards are provided to Families to help purchase pershible items such as milk, butter, bread and other items not collected in our Food Drive.
If you would like to send a cash donation to Christmas Providers, please mail your check to:
Christmas Providers
PO Box 621
Hurst, Texas 76053
Tax ID No. 1-75-2019249

Special RecognitionWe want to express our special thank you again to the Southlake Women's Club Foundation for chosing Christmas Providers to be a beneficiary of the Art in the Square event that occurs April 22,23 and 24, 2016. We always enjoy volunteering in this event and look forward to contributing to their success in years to come.

We greatly appreciate Marsha White of Golden Rule Printing for donating our laminated hand-outs which describe our adopt a family program. Golden Rule is located at 5401 Davis Blvd., North Richland Hills, TX and can be reached at 817/485-4600. (www.goldenruleprinting.net)

Likewise, a very big thank you to Stacy Ardoin, owner of Ardoin Advertising, a full service advertising agency. Ardoin designed and provided creative for our beautiful banners. Contact Ardoin@airmail.net for more information on services provided.

REQUIREMENTS TO ADOPTPROVIDER REQUIREMENTS

1.Individuals, families, or groups may call to adopt a family.2. Providers may request a particular size family or geographic preference of family. A note of caution, the more specific requests, the more difficult it is to match Providers to families.3. Providers are asked to provide at least ONE wrapped gift for each child in the family, but you may always do more within reason! The emphasis should be placed on the children4. Providers are required to provide their family a meat (turkey or ham) for Christmas dinner. A box of canned goods will be provided to you by the Christmas Provider Organization to deliver with your meat so that the family can have a nice meal on Christmas Day.5. Providers should deliver their gifts and the boxed of prepared food (and meat) to the family at their convenience prior to Christmas Day.

The following items will be given to each Provider.

1. A client intake sheet giving information on the family, including clothing sizes, gift ideas, and contact phone numbers.2. A box of canned goods and a grocery store gift certificate will be available for PROVIDER pick-up Dec. 9th and/or 10th, 2016 between 9:00-5:00 at the Boy Scout Building -First United Methodist Chuch in Hurst, TX. A map will be sent to the Provider as well as a reminder postcard.